Sorry, I guess I jumped to conclusions. What you did wasn’t uncalled for, sorry. You were clearing the mobs to get the chest, and his attempt at getting it first was underhanded.
Curse of Recklessness - the little bastards wont run in fear <evil grin> they just stand there and let my pet pound them and me roast them alive.
Goblins were members of the Horde in Warcraft 2.
Rogues (at least the last time I fired up WoW) are a walking ‘get out of jail free card’! 
They have so many ways to get away its sick…and they have several ways to stun or root. Basically a Warlock going against a Rogue is like a baby seal going against a Russian hunter…its that ugly. They attack so fast that even if you aren’t stunned you won’t be able to cast anything but an insta on them…absolutely no chance of getting away and none of winning either.
-XT
That only works if you have that spell. My pally likes to use unleash her Seal of Justice to keep those murloc’s gurgley asses within her mallet’s reach.
Zoltarb told me the other day that he’s not sure how he’ll feel playing Warcraft not that he personally knows those guys fighting.
Problem is, I like to save Seal of Justice for a possible add.
Christ, I hate murlocs. That “The Coast Isn’t Clear” quest was a nightmare.
You can download the game software for free, although it does take several hours even with a high-speed Internet connection. So, no, you do not have to own the game before you play the free trial.
However.
In order to upgrade from the free trial to the real game (the free trial only lasts 10 days and forbids you from trading items with other players), you must buy an actual copy of World of Warcraft. You don’t have to re-install the World of Warcraft software – the stuff you get in the download is identical anyway – but you do have to enter the access code in the World of Warcraft package.
Yes, you’re paying for an entire package with CD-ROMs and rulebooks and pretty cover art, just so that you can get an access code number.
When you enter this number, you then get 30 more free days of play, in addition to the 10 days you got from the free trial version. The 30 day countdown will not start until your free trial period is up, but you’ll get the ability to trade with other players immediately.
It’s only after the 10-day trial period and the 30-day free-use-for-buying-the-software period that you’ll have to let Blizzard charge your credit card if you want to keep playing.
However, be careful when setting up your World of Warcraft account. There are two pieces of information you must be VERY careful to enter correctly the first time. They are your full name, and your secret question-and-answer. These two items may not be changed, even if you call up Blizzard’s support phone line and beg. You cannot have them change your secret question-and-answer, even if you divorced your spouse and no longer want him/her to be able to access your account. You cannot even change the name on your account if you get married and change your last name!
So, if you made a typo in your name, or in your secret question-and-answer, when you created your account for your free trial, my advice is this: DO NOT continue to use that account. Do not enter the access code from your purchased World of Warcraft box into that account. Abandon the characters you’ve made thus far completely, delete them from the realm (so that you can re-use their character names), leave that account never to return, and start a brand new trial demo account from scratch. Yes, you’ll be giving up the days of effort you’ve put into your characters thus far. But it is far better to let them die when they’re young than to march them all the way to Level 60 only to find that the whole mighty empire you’ve created is built on a bad account, and then have to buy a whole new copy of WoW to get a new access code number and start the whole damn process over again!
Only until they get Vanish, which is the GooJF card to trump them all.
Well phooey on them then. I’m not paying $50 up front for the privivledge of then paying them $15 a month or whatever it is.
Yes! Darn them to heck for daring to have a profit motive! :rolleyes:
Actually, that $50 is just like buying any other game out there that is not hooked up online. If you want to play Civ 4, you have to buy it UNLESS you get a ripped copy and commit a minor crime in playing stolen software. That CD key code that essentially you are paying for is the ‘legal copy’ of the game. Think of it that way. Should they sell just the CD key code for less money? Probably, but keep in mind the cost of putting out the hard copy of the software [cd, box, and whatever tchatchkes come in the box] is probably less than $5US - the bulk of the money you pay is for the intellectual property that is the game.
Though unlike a standalone game, the content is not static - and that $15 a month fee supports the weekly server maintenance [and any emergency tweakage that may go on that we never see] and they are constantly tweaking the game and releasing updates and changes [like the upcoming patch where we get a new instance or 2, new tradeskill patterns, and changes in the abilities of paladins] so realistically, you are paying to join an online community that changes constantly. You can interact with other living beings in any manner from talking to them through joining a group to accomplish something, through [in player vs player mode] hunting them down and clubbing them like a baby seal [if that gets your rocks off] or as I like to think about it, a chat room with light killing =)
If you go into a MMORPG thinking it is a waste of time and money, for you it probably is and you should stick to ego-shooters that you can rip off of alt.binaries.games [or wherever it is people get them from]
If you want to support good quality programming in a nonstatic environment, then jump into the world of MMORPGs with both feet and a credit card, and enjoy a virtual world. I cant wait until they design the brain jack VR gaming for WoW …
It’s $43 at Wal*Mart (might be able to find cheaper somewhere), plus $14.95/month.
It’s worth it.
Last night I was playing with my friend who lives 50 miles south and his son who is in billeted in DC area. I recognized it was his son’s name, so I asked if it was him. His character’s a 27 Nightelf Druid. He was razzing me about how badass his weapons are compared to mine. I got to tell him, “Don’t give me no grief, boy, I wiped your ass when you were just in diapers!” Which is actually true. It’s so cool to be able to play together and interact from so far away. Which reminds me, this weekend I asked a guy a question and found he only spoke French. Sadly, he did not immediately surrender.
Of course they have a right to charge whatever price they want, and I have a right to refuse. I’m just stating why.
To me subscription-based games are different. The game is useless without paying the monthly fee. If I already have the game from playing the free trial, why do I have to pay for it again?
Because they have the right to expect a profit on the game itself, as well as the subscription. It cost them money to produce the game itself in the first place, so it’s perfectly reasonable for them to recoup that. I can only think of a handful of well-known or popular MMORPG-type games that you DIDN’T have to pay for the game itself. It’s the default marketing plan for this type of game.
Generally, for the cost, you get a month free (-$15), a backup install CD, and whatever packaging bits you get. (COH Collector’s Edition: cloth map, HeroClix, updated manual, DVD with fun stuff, $29, so $14)
$14 for the fiddly bits isn’t bad.
The Fry’s store chain here in California had it on sale for $22.95 last Friday, and I’ll bet’cha dollars to donut-holes other rebate offers (perhaps even from Blizzard?) are out there.
Just think of it as $23-$50 for the first month, and then $15 per month thereafter. In fact, Blizzard lets you get “volume discounts” if you let 'em bill you in 3-month increments.
But I will say this: If you’ve managed to get all the way through the entire trial period and you still don’t feel like you must keep playing, then you’re a stronger man than I. The addictive power of WoW is staggering.
Unfortunately, that is no longer the case.
This Monday, I whacked my left pinky-toe against a cardboard box while walking around the house in the dark, and gave myself a small spiral fracture. It’ll take weeks to heal and the toe has to be “immobilized” by taping it to the toe next to it for that whole time.
Ironically, the reason I was walking around the house was to get to my computer and play World of Warcraft!!
Cardboard box crits tracer for 1000.
ROFLMAO! I’ll have you know that a friend of mine also injured himself while playing WoW. Seems he got mad at the game and threw his mouse at the screen (don’t ask why…I still am not clear on what that was supposed to accomplish). Anyway, the mouse shattered and my friend got a very nasty scalp cut from the flying shards. There is a lesson there but I still haven’t figured out what it is.
I’ll have you guys know that I’ve reactivated my account and am currently sorting out my characters (and trying to find some decent UI mods) to start playing again. Its ALL YOUR FAULTS!! I went out and bought a very pretty World of Warcraft Atlas today as well. Its got all the maps and quests and things. Yes, you can get them all online…but I always like to have a hard cover and it really is a nice book.
-XT
Where you play at XT? If you want to start a new alliance side character, do it on the Hyjal server and you can join my guild (yes, my guild, I’m the GM). If you want horde side, a SDMB/Live Journal guild exists on the Garona server.